I just like to fish and hope I always can. I am amazed to no end that our salmon and steelhead have put up with as much crap as we have dealt them already. I guess we do all have that thought in common. My life is pretty much centered around it. Most all my friends are guys I steelhead or fly fish with. We don't all agree with each other, but we do have a good time.

I fly fish most often. A couple weeks ago on a local river thats closed to the retention of brown trout, a guy took some pictures of a Hispanic family fishing. Cooking hot dogs, two kids running around the mini van, a dog. The dad was bait fishing. Not real common.. but legal. He caught a brown trout and kept it. So this guy takes the pictures of the license plate, and calls the fish and game. This all plays out on an internet forum and along the way its assumed that this guy is probably an illegal alien, probably has a meth lab someplace as well. Fish and game actually tracked this guy down and nailed him. That very weekend, I am sturgeon fishing with some friends. The wind was brutal and we were trying to put a sled on a trailer at the boat ramp and there was a family fishing off the ramp. Totally in the way. I ran off my mouth and the guy looked at me like " I'm just trying to have a little family time here, I ain't no pro and it sucks already.. wife can't stand it and now here you are ".. Some how between those two incidents, I just felt like a dick. What means everything to me is just a thing to do for most. I resolved to change my attitude and see if I could not get some respect for the little guy. We will see how that goes.

All I can really do now to feel better is call Larry and fire him again, or maybe go catch a few bass and eat them.. that always helps